Queensland Premier and Opposition Leader to face off in second debate

Queensland's Premier Steven Miles and Opposition Leader David Crisafulli have returned to Brisbane ahead of their second election debate.

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00:00Well, this is going to be a little bit different from the last debate.

00:05Instead of a panel that are questioning the leaders, it will be a gallery full of journalists

00:09that will be asking those questions before the two leaders are then able to go head-to-head

00:14and grill each other on the topics we heard from last time.

00:16Now, this is, as you mentioned, the second of three debates that the leaders will participate

00:21in before the state election next Saturday on October 26th.

00:25And really since the start of this campaign has kicked off, we've seen the leaders tour

00:29a lot of Queensland.

00:30They've been focused on the regions as well as the far north, and that's because Queensland

00:34is one of the most decentralised states in the country, where the larger population actually

00:39exists outside of the capital city.

00:42So yesterday we saw the Premier, Stephen Miles, who was in the seat of Rockhampton in central

00:46Queensland, where he was continuing to spruik his cost-of-living measures.

00:50Now, the seat of Rockhampton has been traditionally considered a safe Labor seat, but only recently

00:55have they faced a major challenge from the former mayor-turned-independent candidate

00:59Margaret Strulow, who's now contesting it.

01:01It does come as the opposition leader, David Christopher Lee, spent the day in the electorate

01:05of Ipswich West yesterday, continuing to tout his youth crime policies.

01:09Now, many Queenslanders would have already started to see those big billboards around

01:13the state with the LNP party slogan, Adult Crime, Adult Time.

01:17The party has largely been running their campaign off addressing youth crime here in Queensland.

01:22As for the debate today, the two leaders are going to have quite a bit of a tough act to

01:26follow after their deputies fired up at each other yesterday.

01:29We heard from the Shadow Treasurer, David Janetzky, who called out his counterpart,

01:34Cameron Dick, effectively asking him to reveal his economic plan, but it only came after

01:39he himself was accused of hiding during this state election.

01:43So we are expecting this debate to kick off at about midday local time here in Queensland.

01:48It's hosted by the Queensland Media Club and will be presented to a crowd of about

01:52600 people.

01:54And topics like cost of living, youth crime, housing and health, which are some of the

01:58four main topics that we're hearing emerge from this state election, will all be on the

02:02table as the countdown does continue with less than 10 days to go.